Panchen Erdeni Chos-kyi-rGyalpo — also known as Panchen Rinpoche — called on monks to reduce their dependence on electronic devices when performing their daily religious practices, as he conducted a series of religious activities in monasteries in Shigatse of the Xizang autonomous region last week.
As morning exercise commenced, students at Coqen County Middle School in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region eagerly assembled on the playground, forming well-organized circles by classes.
As the vast harvested fields are bathed in the plateau's morning light, the sound of black-necked cranes searching for food fills the air in Lhaze county in the Xizang autonomous region, also known as Tibet.
In the first 10 months of this year, the total value of foreign trade imports and exports in the Xizang autonomous region was 9.35 billion yuan ($1.3 billion), 1.5 times that of the same period last year and the highest in the country, Lhasa Customs announced on Friday.
Zhang Yun, a scholar who has engaged in Tibetology research for about four decades, said that he has witnessed the significant progress in human rights development in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region.
The peaceful liberation of Xizang in 1951 was a momentous and historic event for China and the democratic reform in the region in 1959 was a milestone in global abolitionist movement.
